ASF's really odorless?

i moved all my rats and mice to the garage and kept the soft furs inside and my room doesn't smell yet, its bin a week. before it only took about 3 days and you could smell them. so they smell alot better than the rats and mice.

They are not odorless, But less odor than Mice or Rats.
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It's not that they stink less, its that they pee less. If you notice your water bottles stay full twice as long with asf's compared to rats/mice so hence the reason they pee less. (and stink less)

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Originally Posted by Kevin_Hornby

It's not that they stink less, its that they pee less. If you notice your water bottles stay full twice as long with asf's compared to rats/mice so hence the reason they pee less. (and stink less)

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I disagree. hold a fresh dead rat in one hand, and a fresh dead ASF in the other hand. Now smell each.

Rats, themselves, STINK.

ASF's themselves are odorless.

What you said about less urine is true, but I think the odorless qualites of the ASF itself has a lot to do with the overall smell.

Yes rats stink, but what do they smell like? Urine. We have a pet rat that smells the same as any of our ASF's, but we have to clean her house more often to keep her that way.

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Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh

I disagree. hold a fresh dead rat in one hand, and a fresh dead ASF in the other hand. Now smell each.

Rats, themselves, STINK.

ASF's themselves are odorless.

What you said about less urine is true, but I think the odorless qualites of the ASF itself has a lot to do with the overall smell.

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Rats do not stink if given an opportunity to get away from their own urine and feces. Male rats do have a musk but on a clean rat you can't smell it unless you hold the rat up to your nose (and even then it doesn't 'stink' per se, but you can smell the difference from a male and a female rat).

You are more than welcome to come by my house anytime you are in Dallas and smell any of my 13 pet rats who are kept in cages that allows them to not have to sit in their own waste and smell them; you will smell warm, clean fur (much like sniffing a cat), and nothing else.